pyrotechnick

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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   G'day Amazon. How's it goin' mate? About bloody time you come visit. Make ya'self comfy but keep an eye out for the locals. 'specially those flamin' Drop Bears. To the rest of you PaaS mob: so where the bloody hell are you?
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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   Particularly the larger studios. In those, the answer to the OPs question, "Percent of time spent developing internal tools?", at least on certain teams, is in excess of 90%.
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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   Correct. http://www.infoq.com/articles/java-dotnet-patents But what isn't? Plenty of Rails is sitting atop JRuby and friends. Nothing is immune. Don't get me wrong. I'm not a massive supporter of .NET (outside of XNA) by any means. My poi
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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   http://mono-project.com
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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   There are at least 3 prominent buttons rigged up to the "WE ARE SORRY!" modal. If all you can actually do on the site is leave an email, make that more clear and try to be less deceiving. Furthermore, in its current state, this product is n
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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   I don't often like admitting this but you'll find a much stronger response (~ 10, 000 readers) on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell
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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   HERE BE DRAGONS * Paywall * Forced registration * Advertisements galore * Popups It's laughable anyone would consider an organisation willing to produce this abomination of a website an authority on technical progress. I'm tremendously di
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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   See RoboTeddy's comment above. Some tech details: canvas-based rendering engine, firebase for chat and presence, sockjs for realtime events, phantomjs + beanstalkd for rendering static tiles (for zooming way out), python on the server side
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   by pyrotechnick 14y ago

   Works such as this are very near to my heart. As a developer of collaborative games in emerging technologies including "HTML5" I want to articulate the intense delight I feel each instance I discover others pursuing this strange, new, often
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    Thanks for another great example of fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding the undeniable ubiquity of HTML. http://alwaysbetonjs.com
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    I'll happily accept code that's a product of this mentality (+ tests) over jargon-ladened "zen" code. We too often forget our code sits atop a stack of compounding encapsulations we'd all find horrifically disgusting whose only true merit i
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    This comment reveals more about its authors comments than it provides in commentary to the rest of the comments. If you're commentative enough at what you comment that you have time to comment on your inner comments about how good you comme
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    http://html5please.com
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    Q.E.D.
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=philwelch
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Project_management_sof... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cloud_platforms
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    argumentum ad populum
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    argumentum ad novitam
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    Hell: not really a problem.
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    This move marks the beginning of the end of a four year long effort for Twitter to rid themselves of Ruby. History will remember the entire Ruby industry as a series of compounding failures. The de facto formalisation and specifications. Th
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    "I have been writing JavaScript for 8 years now, and I have never once found need to use an uber function. The super idea is fairly important in the classical pattern, but it appears to be unnecessary in the prototypal and functional patter
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    You've been sold a lie. There's a reason it's called Gene EXPRESSION.
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    My favourite is one that provides mini-games to keep me entertained whilst TextMate completes searches.
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    *your
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    Morpheus: Fortunately, no one can be told what unicoding is. You have to write it for yourself.
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    It's merely a guide to "unicoding".
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    ūñįčødįńg(github.com)

    5 points by pyrotechnick 14y ago|7 comments
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    tl;dr - "Steam may well be doomed" - "Steam is just the wrong side of geeky" - "Microsoft sold at least 4 million copies of Windows 8" - "Microsoft is poised to apply a Wal-Mart Effect to PC software" Metro is indeed where asses are tol
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    http://devhike.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/palette-behaviour-wit...
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    by pyrotechnick 14y ago

    Teenage ninja turtles are nothing more than a mass of teenage, ninja and turtle habits.